Author Lisa French

This article charts the commission given to architects Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin; the cultural as well as national significance of the Theatre; and its place within Melbourne’s vibrant scr...

This is a big, true story of my people… (David Gulpilil, Ten Canoes) Over more than thirty years, actor, dancer, musician and visual artist David Gulpilil has been deeply engaged in telling the “big, true” sto...

Anarchy John Flaus became active in the film society movement in 1953 and in the following year he published in Voice: The Australian Independent Monthly, falling out with the editor on the question of the pol...

plunge their characters into all kinds of darkness, where a sense of ultimate self may be found or, more disturbingly, lost. Audiences prepared to meet such daunting challenges would be right to think they are...

In the early eighties, The Sunnyboys were the greatest band on the planet… - Stuart Coupe, Music Journalist (interviewed in The Sunnyboy) Kaye Harrison’s new documentary The Sunnyboy (2013) opens with the d...

As the landscape teems with the dust of a thousand cattle stampeding towards him, Nullah (Brandon Walters) takes a stand on the edge of a precipice. At this moment, it is not just courage and the strength of hi...

On 11 December 2009, filmmaker Solrun Hoaas died suddenly in Melbourne, Australia. Having only seen her a few weeks before, I was shocked at the loss of a most passionate individual. At her memorial on December...

Research into female authorship in the cinema was a neglected area in cinema studies until the 1990s (1). Since then, there has been an increased interest in women auteurs, largely generated by women writers an...

(1) What year(s) were you festival director? 1991-1993. I followed Nigel Buesst. (2) What kind of activities did you do, or were you responsible for, as festival director? Everything! When I took over,...

An overview of Aboriginal artist Tracey Moffatt's remarkable short film.

An examination of a genuinely "quirky" Australian short film from a number of different angles.